Record-Breaking Thread

WTF. 25 dead (and rising) in Nashville after at least one EF-3 tornado ripped through the city last night. Looks like a war zone from the pics I've seen, lots of buildings heavily damaged or destroyed and debris absolutely everywhere. Thoughts and prayers to everyone in the area, can't even imagine what they're going through.

Thursday - I watched the first three episodes of HBO's Chernobyl, and as with the first time, my breath is just taken away. Brilliant, powerful, and enormously tragic ... and absolutely worth your time and attention.

Been a busy few weeks, working my day job and being a census field supervisor has made things busy. Having a government cell phone again is kind of odd, but at least I don’t need to worry about the MPs calling because Soldiers got a DUI so there is that. Pay is pretty good too.

Friday - Got caught up in minutiae yesterday, so finishing Chernobyl didn't happen. Will try to do that this afternoon. Person of Interest continues to be blindingly good; I'm really going to miss it when the episodes run out.

Went to visit my BIL in the hospital yesterday. Tuesday he had surgery to remove a tumor in his tongue/jaw. Sounds like the surgeons are confident they got everything. Had to remove part of the tongue, and reconstruct the jaw with bone taken from his shoulder blade. Anyway, he's in great spirits and was up walking already yesterday (in small doses) and was sitting in a chair when I got there. He says (writes) with all the tubes and wires, he can't get "Welcome to the Machine" out of his head. :-)

I've had this mild cold for the past three weeks now, a little cough and sometimes tired. It's never gone over 2/10 but it's lingering in my body. It's annoying as f**k and I only drank twice in the past three weeks.

Sounds like a milder version of the "Lagunavirus"that has been dragging on me for weeks now.

Got sick on arrival in CA (Feb 15th) with achy body, hacking cough, runny nose and managed with Zicam and Advil to maintain functionality. Thought it would run its course when we returned a week later but the willpower used to maintain functionality on the road seemed to fully deplete my body's batteries upon return home.

Was in virtual bedrest the week after returning home giving my body full support to fight it off but it's only been the last couple of days that the will to live, have a drink and socialize started returning. The degradation of functionality has been in lack of focus. Mild upper respiratory cough and phlegm, slightly achy body and general weariness. Have three friends reporting the same lingering symptoms and my daughter had a version of this that dogged her for weeks as well.

Clearly not Covid-19 but you wouldn't want to be in the early stages of whatever this is and then get Covid-19. It's those compound circumstances that'll kill you.

The lack of fluids, especially essential ones, is part of your lingering issue. Green tea with honey, ginger ale, purified water with fresh lemon juice, ginger tea, etc, will help flush the cold or flu out of your system faster.

Got 2 letters Monday from the Florida dept of agriculture. One was that our fertilizer license was going to expire on 12-31-2017, and the other was that the license was terminated due to non renewal and that all related activities should "cease and desist". Except that the 4 year license was renewed over 2 years ago and we have a certificate with an expiration of 12-31-2021 on it. Faxed a copy to them and they called me back not knowing what happened, but rescinded the cease and desist order until their personnel could review it. They called me back today and said their system has me back in good standing and they don't know what or why it happened. Made for an interesting week. Did serve to re-enforce my views on government regulations and regulators. :)